The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-05-16


Even on the best regulated farms stock
may be injured. Hence, old wells, half
den bitches and such like should be covered
or filled up.
Wire netting, two-inch mesh, is now
cheaper than boards as material for fencing
poultry, and can be moro easily arranged
and with less labor.
There are over fifty poultry shows in the
United States that annually give exhibit
tions. They have been instrumental in
greatly advancing the poultry interests.
Use no stable manure on young peach
trees A mixture OF some kind of mineral
fertilizers is better, Experiments have
shown mari to be excellent for peach trees
A fresh egg will sink when placed in wa
ter, and when boiled the skin will not peel
off like that of an orange, as in the case
with those not strictly fresh. Stale eggs
are CLASSY and very smooth, while fresh eggs
have peculiar roughness.
English mutton is largely fattened on tur-
nlps, and yet it maintains its superiority.
While not themselves very nutritious, yet
turnips promote good digestion, on which
! rapid fattening and the good juicy quality
of the meat largely depends.
The consumption of food by dairy stock is
paid back in a threerfold way--milk, growth
of stock and the valueof the manure-which
last often balances the first cost of the food.
1t is in that respect that stock-raising is su-
perior to exclusive grain-growing.
A prominent nurseryman says that nur-
sery practices in peach propagation and Gull
ture have weakened the vital power of the
| tree, which is unable to resist as depressing
| influences as formerly, when the trees from
seeding grew we'll and lived to old age
Large trees can be moved and transplant
ed, thus taking advantage of several years
| growth, provided all of the roots and some
| of the adhering earth be carried with them
The place in which they are to be deposited
should also be specially prepared for their
reception.
Those who live on land where there is no
gravel OF sand should haul load and spread
| it about the poultry yards The fowls will
| enjoy it as much as though it were some
| thing good to eat, and in most cases it will
the chickens can't talk, and don't know how
to ask for what they want.
No farmer can do himself or his family a
better service this spring than by planting a
| garden i'll which he may have some raspber-
ries, blackberries, Strawberries and cur
rants, and, as well, lots of vegetables Plant
| everytl ing so that horse cultivator may
be used. Plant plenty, till well and raise
lots Of good food for the family.
To make successful farmers of the coming
| generation the young should be taught the
theories of farming in schools, AS an advanced
| study, which should include the chemistry of
! foods, partial knowledge of diseases of ami
mails and the characteristics of stock. Such
will be the state of affairs in the distant fu-
| ture, as farming, like everything else, is
| progressive.
| A large yield of butter without due pro-
portion Of albuminoids being furnished in
the food is out of the question. Butter can
not be obtained from poor food. If GER
tain amount of corn fodder must be fed it
must be combined with strongly nitroge-
| nous food. Nothing is better for milk cows
than good timothy hay. Linseed meal in
proper proportions, is a good heterogeneous
food.
Sometimes the little Jersey COW is good
mixer. "Fawn of st. Lambert" who was
8 years and 8 months old at the beginning of
her test, produced as much as TO-, 10l IL
pounds about 5000 quarts of milk in twelve
months, giving as high as 81 pounds per day
at some periods. She also produced nearly
572 pounds Of butter for the year, her high
est record for one week being Is pounds and
5 1-2 ounces.
Those who look upon farming only as an
ordinary occupation are mistaken. As
Professor Wrighton remarks, agriculture is
gy, geology and entomology. 1t is full of
chemistry, from the soil to the growing
plant, the ripening seed and the animal life
which is the browning outcome. There is
no more varied pursuit, and most others are
narrow in their scope in comparison with it.
Prof S. A. Knapp, of Lake Charles, La, ,
says that the grasses of the Southern States
are more nutritious than those in the North
ern States. l do not mean to say that the
planted to Northern soil would be more nu-
tritious than those grasses now grown at the
North, like your red clover, timothy, etc. !,
but that the grasses including all legumi-
nous plants which thrive in the South, pas
palum, Japan clover, crab grass and the
like, bear the same relation to soil, W tn re-
ference to their nutritive and fertilizing
qualities, as does the red clover for instance
Of the North; but are more nutritious than
the corresponding plants that thrive at the
North; more nutritious than the red clover
which thrives in the Northern States